Top Inventors in Santa Ana, CA | Patent Leaderboard

Santa Ana, CA ranks #558 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 6,088 patents from 1,362 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Santa Ana, CA include Edwards Lifesciences, Fluor Technologies, Alsius. That works out to 19.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,362 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Louis A. Campbell	Edwards Lifesciences	99
2	John Mak	Fluor Technologies	93
3	Scott M. Evans	Alsius	77
#4	Stanley A. White	—	70
#5	Ben Wei Chen	Kingston Technology	64
#6	Thomas K. Tsotsis	The Boeing	62
#7	Marco Racanelli	Newport Fab	58
#8	Thomas Obkircher	Skyworks Solutions	54
#9	Bill Price	Taylor Made Golf Company	49
#10	James A. Burke	AbbVie	48
#11	David L. Phillips	John Deere	47
#12	Matthew L. Marrocco, III	Cities Service Oil And Gas	45
#12	Edward Shanbrom	Shanbrom Technologies	45
#14	Donald E. Bobo, Jr.	Edwards Lifesciences	42
#15	John Y. Park	AbbVie	41
#16	Ming Fai Chan	AbbVie	40
#17	Mark E. Steen	Advanced Medical Optics	39
#17	David J. Schuessler	AbbVie	39
#17	Marcella A. Gilmore	AbbVie	39
#20	Tam Le	—	36
#21	Paul V. Darbee	Comcast	35
#22	Martin B. Dines	Occidental Research	34
#23	Eric Karl Kinast	Masimo	31
#24	Martin E. Gerry	—	29
#24	Rabih Nassif	Axonics	29
#26	John Michael Macpherson	23Andme	28
#27	Loc Nguyen	Surefire	26
#27	Jeffrey S. Dove	Edwards Lifesciences	26
#27	John Joseph Cogger	Glaukos	26
#30	James E. Hill	Amo Development	25
#30	Dana DeReus	Wispry	25
#32	John C. Farrar	Skycross Co.	24
#33	Robert L. Barnett	Unknown	23
#33	Frederick L. Jordan	Oryxe Energy International	23
#33	Sam Sok	Edwards Lifesciences	23
#33	Thien Nguyen	Solmetex	23
#33	John Elwood	Resilience Magnum Ip	23
#33	Robert E. Thomas	Gmi Holdings	23
#33	Victor Voth	University of California	23
#40	Erica A. Moir	Sundance Spas	22
#40	George Bromfield	Kimberly-Clark Worldwide	22
#40	Michelle Tabb	Quest Diagnostics Investments	22
#40	Ashwin Raghunathan	Qualcomm	22
#44	Tammy Huntley	Edwards Lifesciences	21
#44	Peter Goldstein	Dialight	21
#44	Lin Higley	Hughes Aircraft	21
#44	Antonio Ruiz	IBM	21
#44	Tom Hee Kwon	Incipio	21
#44	Kirby S. Black	Cryolife	21
#44	Thomas P. Maxwell	3M	21

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